I used concurrent gnu "cp -a"'s to copy 250GB on four machines in 8 hours.
in your case one machine should be fine. just mount the netapp onto the unix box, and go into the top level directory and type this (in csh or tcsh):
mkdir /mnt/toaster/data cd /usr/data foreach dir (*) cp -a "$dir" /mnt/toaster/data & end
if the directories are even in size that's better. you can also use tar, replace the cp command above with:
tar cf - "$dir" | ( cd /mnt/toaster/data ; tar xfpB -) &
-corris
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Rainchik, Aleksandr (MED, Non GE) wrote:
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:00:34 -0500 From: "Rainchik, Aleksandr (MED, Non GE)" Aleksandr.Rainchik@amermsx.med.ge.com To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Huge one-time data transfer from UNIX to NetApp
Hi!
I have a question: what should be the best way to transfer 20-25Gb of data (lot's of small files) from UNIX to NetApp?
Can I do ufsdump on UNIX, pipe it trough rsh to NetApp and do restore there?
Thank you.